Why this behaviour?
8th August, 2010, I went to Aarong for Eid shopping and something happened. I was taking a look at “girl's panjabi''. A foreigner was also there. She took a panjabi out and asked the sales girl that where she could get a pant. The person who has been asked the question did not understand her as she does not know English. The foreigner asked her the same question by saying “pants, I want a pant, do not you have a pant with this?” The sales girl failed to understand her again and was really ashamed of her as she could not speak English and started feeling inferior. She, restlessly, called another sales girl to help her out. This sales girl also found the language difficult, which annoyed the white American, and replied “sorry no pants”. The American Lady, I came to know by her accent, was really amazed with this and said “WEIRD, NO PANTS BUT DISPLAYED SHIRTS. YOU BANGLADESHIES CAN'T EVEN SAY A PROPER ENGLISH SENTENCE”. The scene was going on in front of my eyes but I did not give much attention to it until her two words chocked me “weird” and “you Bangladeshies”. I was so furious with these words that I could not stop myself talking to her and said in English “May be I can help you. I am a customer just like you and a Bangladeshi. What you have just wanted is not “pant' we call it “ pajama” and this is not “shirt”. We call it “panjabi”. These are our customs. We do not know your language as we are not bound to know. It is not so important for us to speak English as we have our own Bangla language.
Have we taken it for granted that white people are better than us and we are born to be suppressed?
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